John 11:13

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.